The State vs. the Dead Body of Samuel Brock Sr.

Date: 
March 23, 1884

Deceased

Samuel Brock Sr.
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: That the Said Samuel Brock Sr came to his death by being burned to death in his own hous supposed accidently

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. D. Tiller
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Samuel Brocks Sr
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Rachel White Sworn. . . when I left he Deceased was on pallet there was a cotton bed . . . his bedcoths has caught of fire sometimes and Deceased caught on fiar and got burnt himself his cloths caught on fire sometimes I don't that that there was any foul play. I smoke sometimes but I did not smoke any that morning Witnes has bin living with deceased . . .

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